Best practices in action

Contains step-by-step lessons and sample student-teacher dialogues teachers may use to help students in kindergarten through second grade develop real-life writing skills, and includes practice activities for each writing form, reproducible templates, ideas for differentiated instruction, and suggested book lists.

A twelve-week collection of reproducible intervention activities designed to help students in grades two and three develop skills in phonemic awareness, word recognition, and decoding.

Contains fourteen short read-aloud plays designed to build fluency in third and fourth graders through repeated reading; and includes a mini-lesson, teaching ideas, a rubric, and a checklist for student self-assessment.

Presents more than twenty passages designed for first and second grade teachers to read aloud, modeling fluency, each paired with fluency-building tips, an introduction to read to students, think-alouds, and discussion questions.

Presents more than twenty passages designed for fifth and sixth grade teachers to read aloud, modeling fluency, each paired with fluency-building tips, an introduction to read to students, think-alouds, and discussion questions.

Presents more than twenty passages designed for third and fourth grade teachers to read aloud, modeling fluency, each paired with fluency-building tips, an introduction to read to students, think-alouds, and discussion questions.

Presents thirty nonfiction and fiction passages and companion activity sheets designed to help students in grades three and four build their reading comprehension skills.

Contains a collection of twenty reproducible graphic organizers and mini-lessons that help students make connections between words and their meanings.

Presents twenty-five reproducible poems for improving comprehension and fluency, featuring a vocabulary preview, partner and group practice ideas, discussion questions, and extension activities.

Contains fifteen short read-aloud plays designed to build fluency in first and second graders through repeated reading; and includes a mini-lesson, teaching ideas, a rubric, and a checklist for student self-assessment.